Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance May Be Here to Stay
Short-term, limited-duration insurance may be here to stay despite legal attacks, poor branding, and a potential Democrat victory in the upcoming election.
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Read more: Can We Expect Legislation on Surprise Medical Billing? I’d Be Surprised Can We Expect Legislation on Surprise Medical Billing? I’d Be Surprised
To shake legislation on surprise medical billing loose, the President would need to take a side and expend political capital on a creative solution.
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Read more: The Promise and Pitfalls of Trump’s “Most Favored Nation” Approach to Drug Pricing The Promise and Pitfalls of Trump’s “Most Favored Nation” Approach to Drug Pricing
A recent executive order aimed at addressing ballooning pharmaceutical expenditures is ambitious in scope, but its impact remains to be seen.
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Read more: A Quarter of the Work Force: International Medical Graduates and the Lives They Save A Quarter of the Work Force: International Medical Graduates and the Lives They Save
By Wendy S. Salkin On Monday, May 1, 2017, International Workers’ Day, thousands took to the streets across the United States to demonstrate in support of immigrants’ rights in the United States and against immigration policies recently rolled out by President Trump. Among the Presidential Actions taken by President Trump during his first hundred days in…
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Read more: Housing Equity Week in Review Housing Equity Week in Review
It was a national and international first week of March in housing equity and law. Here are some of the big stories from the field March 6-12, 2017: On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to cut domestic spending. Now the administration is considering a $6 billion cut to the Department of Housing and Urban…
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Lots of questions and debate this week in housing equity and law. Here’s the latest for the week of February 21-27, 2017: After a win for the Civil Gideon movement in New York, Next City asks if other cities could follow New York City’s lead and extend the right to counsel to low income tenants…
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Last week, January 23-29, 2017, saw a mix of national and local-level housing news. Here’s our round-up for the past week: Surprising some on the “Warren-wing” of the Democratic Party, Elizabeth Warren came out in support of Dr. Ben Carson as the 17th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. In the confirmation hearing, Warren asked…
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By Gregory M. Lipper “Not Just Obamacare: Medicaid, Medicare Also On GOP’s Chopping Block,” write Jonathan Cohn and Jeffrey Young in The Huffington Post: Donald Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have made clear they are serious about repealing Obamacare, and doing so quickly. But don’t assume their dismantling of government health insurance programs will stop there….
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Read more: “That I Don’t Know”: The Uncertain Futures of Our Bodies in America “That I Don’t Know”: The Uncertain Futures of Our Bodies in America
By Wendy S. Salkin I. Our Bodies, Our Body Politic On March 30, at a town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, an audience member asked then-presidential-hopeful Donald J. Trump: “[W]hat is your stance on women’s rights and their right to choose in their own reproductive health?” What followed was a lengthy back-and-forth with Chris Matthews….